Truesdail v. Ward
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Lapeer Circuit. The bill in this cause was filed by Wesley Truesdail, in the circuit court for the county of Lapeer, in chancery, against Eber B. Ward, Ilalmer H. Emmons, Benjamin F Moore, William Moore, and Allender S. Moore for the specific performance of a contract for the purchase of about twenty-five hundred acres of pine lands.
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Appeal in Chancery from Lapeer Circuit. The bill in this cause was filed by Wesley Truesdail, in the circuit court for the county of Lapeer, in chancery, against Eber B. Ward, Ilalmer H. Emmons, Benjamin F Moore, William Moore, and Allender S. Moore for the specific performance of a contract for the purchase of about twenty-five hundred acres of pine lands. The bill was taken as confessed, as against Emmons; the other defendants answered, proofs were taken, and the cause was heard upon pleadings and proofs. The court below dismissed the bill, and the complainant brings the cause to this court…
1Opinion of the CourtGrates, J.
On the 23d day of February, 1864, the complainant being interested in a steam saw-mill in St. Clair, entered into a written agreement with defendant Ward, for the purchase of something over four sections of pine land in the county of Lapeer, for forty-four thousand four hundred dollars. By the terms of this agreement complainant was to pay five thousand dollars down, six thousand dollars on the first day. of October, 1865, a, like sum on the first day of October in each subsequent year to and including 1870, and three 'thousand four hundred dollars on the first day of October, 1871, together…
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